Markets continued to trade on a volatile note in afternoon deals, ahead of the futures and options expiry on Thursday. The Sensex is up32 points at 16,999. Nifty is up five points at 5,146.
The Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange, Foreign Exchange, Money market and the oils and oilseeds market will remain closed on Friday on account of Id-ul-Zuha
The wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty also traded marginally up.
The latest directive by the two stock exchanges also comes ahead of a new Corporate Governance Code to be implemented by the capital markets watchdog for all listed companies with effect from October 1.
All major markets including Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange, foreign exchange, call money and wholesale commodity markets will remain closed on Friday on account of 'Dussehra'.
Jet settled higher by 2.35 per cent at Rs 623.40 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
On October 24, the NSE sought clarification from the IT major on the whistleblowers' allegations and why the company had not disclosed the same to the exchanges.
The biggest losers on the National Stock Exchange's benchmark Nifty 50 index are stocks that have seen the highest turnover over the past 12 months, according a report by Morgan Stanley.
Select markets like Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange, foreign exchange and money market will remain closed on Friday, April 9, on account of Good Friday.
The market breadth in BSE ended flat with 1333 shares advancing and 1393 shares declining.
Among all the geographies where Amazon is fighting regulators, India is the only place where its lines are also tangled in a major corporate battle, this one with India's largest company by market capitalisation over the acquisition of Mumbai-based Future Group's retail chain, the country's second largest. No other corporate entity in any country offers a challenge to Amazon's hegemony in a way Reliance Industries does - and the final hearing of an arbitration case filed at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre between the two may decide at least some of these issues. This legal battle between one of the world's most powerful corporations and one of India's most powerful conglomerates could be complicated by a host of other developments.
In a departure from big gains in the past two years, investors saw around Rs 20 lakh crore of their wealth eroded as Indian equities tanked in 2011 because of inflation, high interest rates and the uncertain global growth environment accentuated by the euro zone debt crisis.
After equity indices of emerging markets, Indian investors will now be able to trade the key index of the UK. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) will launch trading in the FTSE 100, the UK's benchmark equity gauge, from May 3.
The country's third largest software firm said on Thursday that it will demerge non-IT businesses like Consumer Care & Lighting into a new company, a move which will allow it to focus exclusively on information technology.
TCS shares ended 1.14 per cent lower at Rs 1,290.30, even after a bullish opening on the BSE. During the day, the scrip slid nearly 2 per cent.
Pressman Advertising was founded by H C Suchanti and is best known in the industry for its pioneering role in corporate and financial communication.
The National Stock Exchange, Bombay Stock Exchange, MCX Stock Exchange and United Stock Exchange have been invited for the August 6 meet.
Dogged by brokers' interference, exits at the top and clash of opinions, regional stock exchanges still struggle to launch their trading platform.
Participants can provide anonymous feedback on market manipulation.
NSE's Ramakrishna and ING Vysya Bank's Bhandari front runners for the post.
The NSE held 25 to 100 per cent stakes in these entities through its subsidiary NSE Investments as of September.
Rupee-denominated contracts will be traded from 9 am to 5 pm.
Domestic institutional shareholders, who together hold around 39 per cent stake in the National Stock Exchange, are unhappy with the exchange's strategy of not charging transaction fees in the currency derivative segment.
Smart order routing (SOR) has finally taken off in India, with the country's two premier bourses resolving their long-standing dispute over the audit trail of orders. SOR allows brokers' trading engines to automatically choose the best price for stocks from multiple exchanges.
The forex and money markets will remain closed on Friday on account of 'Buddha Purnima'.
Widening the ambit of its probe, the police has sought information from the National Stock Exchange (NSE) about investments made by the alleged mastermind of the Citibank fraud, Shivraj Puri, even as it tried to locate his iPad, which may contain crucial data.
The National Stock Exchange listed the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500 on its platform last week.
Fearing possible black money flow and terror financing risks from Iran and North Korea into the Indian stock market, the Securities and Exchange Board of India has asked bourses to be cautious in dealings with funds and entities from those countries.
Finance ministry takes up a review of the STT regime after a meeting with stock exchange officials.
BSE's business was hurt as NSE blocked the flow of orders generated using its co-location facility to other exchanges, purportedly on security-related issues. The dispute between both the exchanges had reached Sebi and the finance ministry.
National Stock Exchange index Nifty shot up 50 points to 4,756.45.
In the last four months, the daily average turnover of currency options has increased from Rs 600 crore to Rs 3,000 crore.
Both the main stock exchanges have set in motion a separate platform to generate more interest and more liquidity for the small and medium enterprises (SME) segment.
The bourse has received approval from the capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of Indian and the RBI for introducing exchange traded currency options on dollar Indian rupee spot rate, NSE said.
The two entities are in talks for launching option contracts based on the US index at the Indian exchange.
Market watchdog Sebi gave its approval on October 11, USE said in a statement. NSE officials too confirmed receiving the approval.
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) will hold a special 'Muhurat' trading session on November 12 from 1730 hrs to 1845 hrs to usher in the Samvat Year 2061.
The 100-year old Calcutta Stock Exchange is finally set to launch a trading platform, which will enable its members to trade on National Stock Exchange (NSE)-listed securities in the next one month, a move that will give the ailing exchange a fresh lease of life.
There are thousands of stocks within the NSE, for example, that are rarely traded.
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